Asia – Page 2 – Tom Vater

Interviewed by Colman’s Criminal Library

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018tomLeave a Comment

Following a great review of my latest novel The Monsoon Ghost Image, Colman from Colman’s Criminal Library has taken the time to interview me, and I in return, have taken the time to ramble incessantly about my self and my work, to the point where it’s almost indecent. Here’s a taster…. From what I little […]

First Amazon review of The Monsoon Ghost Image

November 19, 2018November 19, 2018tomLeave a Comment

Fellow author Janet Brown has posted a fantastic and very thorough review of The Monsoon Ghost Image on Amazon. E book copies are US$3.99 at the moment. It’s not easy to find a true noir detective in fiction these days, probably because as the German gumshoe Maier decides in The Monsoon Ghost Image, “Why solve […]

Talking about writing at My Book Place

November 4, 2018November 4, 2018tomLeave a Comment

I was interviewed at My Book Place a while ago about all things bookish…. What is your favorite book of all time? Hard to say, so many – Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, the Chandler novels, Treasure Island by Stevenson, Burmese Days by George Orwell, The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Killing Mr Watson by […]

Meet The Off The Beaten Path Explorer: Tom Vater

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018tomLeave a Comment

Today’s interview is with a very special friend of the Where Sidewalks End community. It is my honour to introduce to you Mr Tom Vater. Tom is a published author, a long time journalist in the field, co-owner of a publishing house “Crime Wave Press”, and a long time explorer of the world, with a […]

The Tom Vater Collection at the British Library to be digitally preserved

May 14, 2018May 15, 2018tomLeave a Comment

This recording is part of the Tom Vater Collection (C799) at the British Library. A longer extract has been published on The Moken: sea gypsies of the Andaman Sea (Topic Records TSCD919, 2001). The full collection also includes recordings from India, Laos and Cambodia. It will be digitally preserved as part of the Unlocking our […]

Ralf Tooten talks Bangkok Noir

May 25, 2017May 27, 2017tomLeave a Comment

German photographer Ralf Tooten talks to me about his best selling photo book Bangkok Noir at sibylle.life. Read the interview here. Photograph by Laure Siegel.

Interview by Sonia Kilvington

May 25, 2017July 11, 2017tomLeave a Comment

I am interviewed this week by crime writer Sonia Kilvington on all things Crime Wave Press and my two Detective Maier mysteries, The Cambodian Book of the Dead and The Man with the Golden Mind. I first came to Cambodia in 1995, illegally on a speed boat from Trat to Koh Kong. Someone wrote that […]

Interview by Fiona McVie

April 30, 2017April 30, 2017tomLeave a Comment

I’ve been interviewed by Fiona McVie about my life as a writer. And here’s me with my friend and fellow Crime Wave Press owner Hans Kemp. Fiona: What book are you reading now? Just finished The Butterfly by James M Cain, about a man sleeping with his daughter. Not perhaps in the league as his […]

The Travels of Marco Yolo: Blazing Trails where Marco Polo Feared to Go

April 20, 2017August 6, 2017tomLeave a Comment

My friend Marco Ferrarese has published his latest and very very cool travel anthology, The Travels of Marco Yolo: Blazing Trails where Marco Polo Feared to Go. It’s a great read that jumps all over Asia and the Middle East, including some pretty obscure and remote corners, proving that good travel writing survives […]

Crime Wave Press – The Movie

April 6, 2017April 6, 2017tomLeave a Comment

Here’s a little story from us at Crime Wave Press. It’s about the struggle, as indie publishers, to birth great crime fiction into a market controlled by a few sluggish and conservative giants. It’s a fight we can’t win on our own. Having fantastic authors producing thrilling and captivating stories polished and edited close to […]